VOLUME XXIV 



NUMBER 8 



THE 



Journal of Geology 



A Semi-Quarterly 



Edited By 

 thomas c. chamberlin and rollin d. salisbury 



With the Active Collaboration of 

 SAMUEL W WILLISTON, Vertebrate Paleontology ALBERT JOHANNSEN, Petrology 



STUART WELLER, Invertebrate Paleontology ROLLIN T. CHAMBERLIN, Dynamic Geology 



ALBERT D. BROKAW, Economic Geology 



ASSOCIATE EDITORS 



SIR ARCHIBALD GEIKIE, Great Britain 



CHARLES BARROIS, France 



ALBRECHT PENCK, Germany 



HANS REUSCH, Norway 



GERARD DeGEER, Sweden 



T W. EDGEWORTH DAVID, Australia 



BAILEY WILLIS, Leland Stanford Junior University 



GROVE K. GILBERT, Washington. D.C. 



CHARLES D. WALCOTT, Smithsonian Institution 



HENRY S. WILLIAMS, Cornell University 



JOSEPH P.IDDINGS, Washington, D.C. 

 JOHN C. BRANNER, Leland Stanford Junior University 

 RICHARD A. F. PENROSE, Jr., Philadelphia, Pa. 

 WILLIAM B. CLARK, Johns Hopkins University 

 WILLIAM H. HOBBS, University of Michigan 

 FRANK D. ADAMS, McGill University 

 CHARLES K. LEITH, University of Wisconsin 

 WALLACE W. ATWOOD, Harvard University 

 WILLIAM H. EMMONS, University of Minnesota 

 ARTHUR L. DAY, Carnegie Institution 



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